Election (1999)

jeezus, Payne & Taylor really did (co-)write Chuck & Larry. Have they disowned the result?

ending of T3 v ending of About Schmidt

obviously Jurassic Park 4 is going to be the best movie ever you guys

lost world ending is garbage but theres goldblum & the seriously exciting trailer/cliff scene

t3 is better than all these movies though really

you'd figure after sideways being pretty successful, payne wouldn't have to crank out shit* like 'chuck and larry', which makes me think he really wanted to do it.

*even if one thinks sideways is "shit", it is certainly a different kind of "shit" than chuck and larry

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYy0H1wuMYA

payne disowned chuck & larry after sandler came on, insisting it was 'sandlerized' - his o.g. ending was the two dudes actually falling in love

Nicholson's remark at the time that he found a way to play Schmidt by combing his hair a certain style illustrates just how shallow his/Payne's approach was.

It's very, very common for actors to find their way with little things like this. What Nicholson said he did here is called "working from the outside in" and it's not a superficial way to approach a character.

played by dan and slocki xp

Nicholson's remark at the time that he found a way to play Schmidt by combing his hair a certain style illustrates just how shallow his/Payne's approach was what a hilarious motherfucker Jack really is.

Morbius, would you rather have to watch the Wire or Chuck & Larry?

It's very, very common for actors to find their way with little things like this. What Nicholson said he did here is called "working from the outside in" and it's not a superficial way to approach a characte

Yeah, I know, the Brits do it all the time, but it didn't work here.

payne disowned chuck & larry after sandler came on, insisting it was 'sandlerized' - his o.g. ending was the two dudes actually falling in love

More here:
http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/archives/2007/07/payne_and_taylo.php

The only time that approach has worked for Jack is in Prizzi's Honor.

Damn it, why do you people have to be entertaining on a day when I have so much work?

Yeah, I know, the Brits do it all the time, but it didn't work here.

uh, what?

maybe the greatest thing about this movie is that all of the main characters remain reasonably likeable throughout and i found it quite easy to sympathise with them all fairly evenly.

OTM - everybody in Election does stupid/wrong shit and is fairly delusional, but each is also humanized and made sympathetic at key points in the film.

here meaning, in this movie, or in america? xp

Uh, pretty sure he meant the movie, otherwise he would have said "doesn't".

meaning on ILX

Yeah, I know, the Brits do it all the time, but it didn't work here.

uh, what?

The Brits do the outside-in "character-building" approach more often.

payne disowned chuck & larry after sandler came on, insisting it was 'sandlerized' - his o.g. ending was the two dudes actually falling in love

More here:
http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/archives/2007/07/payne_and_taylo.php

-- jaymc, Thursday, February 7, 2008 9:37 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

that's not what it says there

yeah i just heard that, i guess its not actually true

lol

PANCAKES

i was confusing it with the night court season finale

that shit was b-a-n-a-n-a-s

charles robinson rapin' laroquette with a gavel and a clown wig

Getting raped with a clown wig: C/D

that's a classic "didn't know whether to laugh or to cry" scenario

yes

clown wig started out as a merkin on the end of the gavel but didn't know where to stop

http://www.my-magic-store.com/product/images/clown_wig.gif

Mommy!
Fuck it!

yo 'chuck and larry' isn't like A MILLION MILES from 'citizen ruth' and as fer possible 'they fall in love' ending -- payne and taylor copped out on ending 'ruth' definitively amirite?

it's not a great film.

did it originally end with ruth falling in love with the fetus and making out with it?

in a gay, gay way

ew

homophobic much

i dunno, sexual relations with a fetus is pretty gross no matter how you slice it

er, perhaps "slice it" was a poor choice of words

"Since I grew up without a dad, you might assume, psychologically, I was looking for a father figure. But that had nothing to do with it at all. It was just that Dave was so strong, and he made me feel so safe and protected..."

this movie still brings the lols

how miscarriage is a 'copout' I'm not sure

line latebloomer quoted ftw

meh

what was that whole Happiness/Very Bad Things/Election circa 1999 thing where just like exponentially shitty things happen to people in the suburbs

election is nothing like those other two you munch

I'd be happy to discuss that with you, Whiney, but I'm busy searching for old ILB threads to revive so I can be all, "Baseball? Whatever."

http://bestjamaica.com/images/aloe-vera.jpg

Such a classic. One of the only movies that makes my skin crawl. New Criterion remaster looks fantastic.